Echoing Laughter in Victorian Poetry

This talk will look at (and listen to) the odd sounds that laughter makes in a range of Victorian poems. The governing idea – or hunch – of the talk is that when poets are considering laughter in the nineteenth century (and beyond), they are also thinking about what poetry itself might be and do.

Matthew Bevis is a Professor of Literature at the University of Oxford. His books include Comedy: A Very Short Introduction (2012) and Wordsworth’s Fun (2019). His essays have appeared in Poetry, The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, Raritan, and Harper’s. He also runs a range of initiatives and seminars on poetry – in collaboration with Adam Phillips, T. J. Clark, and others. 

More details here: https://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/teaching-research/poetry-at-keble/